Should the US be committed to its allies who have done all they have asked (militarily, diplomatically) when their regime is toppled?

Libya.

No-one is happier/more fearful than I about the fall of that horrid arch-terrorist turned US ally Khadaffi. No-one will shed a tear at his demise.

However, he did follow the rules laid out by the US and, like the governments in other Arab dictatorships/Kingdoms/Sheikdoms – he has been following the rules.

Starting with denouncing terror (though he was responsible for at least Pan Am over Lockerbie – 270 US victims), allowing the removal/destruction of his Nukes and Chemical weapons (you don’t want to know what a stockpile of chem. weapons he had) – and basically being an all-around nice dictator.

But like Egypt’s Mubarrak before him, when the chips fell and the mobs ascended on Tripoli – Obama and the US stood back – and in some cases helped Nato to bomb him alongside the rebels.

So when is an ally no longer an ally?

Is it only about oil and interests?

Who is next – Saudi Arabia?